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free people, wlio are also known as tlie Cubi, and tlien the 

 Lemovices \ the Arverni^, a free people, and the Grabales^. 



Again, adjoining the province of Narbonensis are theE.u- 

 teni"*, the Cadurei^, the Nitiobriges^, and the Petrocori^, 

 separated by the river Tarnis from the Tolosani. The seas 

 around the coast are the Northern Ocean, flowing up to 

 the mouth of the Khine, the Britannic Ocean between the 

 Bhine and the Sequana, and, between it and the Pyrenees, 

 the Grallic Ocean. There are many islands belonging to the 

 Veneti, which bear the name of " Veneticse^," as also in the 

 Aquitanic Gulf, that of Uliarus^. 



CHAP. 34. (20.j — NEAEER SPAIN, ITS COAST ALOITa THE 

 GALLIC OCEAlf. 



At the Promontory of the Pyrenees Spain begins, more 

 narrow, not only than Graul, but even than itself ^° in its 



departments of the Indre, the Cher, and the west of the department of 

 the Alher. Their chief town was Avaricmn, now Bourges. 



^ They inhabited the district formerly known as the Limosin, now the 

 departments of the Creuse, the Haute Viemie, and the Correze. Their 

 chief town was Augnstoritum, afterwards Lemovices, now Lmioges. 



- They occupied the district formerly known as Auvergne, foi*ming the 

 present department of the Alher, and the southern part of thePuy deDome 

 and the Cantal. Augustonemetum was their cliief town, now Clennont. 



^ Situate in the district formerly known as Gevaudan, now tlie de- 

 partment of La Lozere. Their chief town stood on the site of the 

 present small town of Javoidx, foiu' leagues from Mende. 



^ They are supposed to have occupied the former district of Rouergue, 

 now known as the department of Aveyron. Their chief town was Sego- 

 dunum, afterwards Ruteni, now known as Rhodez. 



* They occupied the former district of Querci, the present department 

 of Lot and Lot-et-Graronne. Divona, afterwards Cadurci, now Cahors, 

 was their principal town. 



^ According to Ptolemy their town was Aginnum, probably the mo- 

 dem Agen, in the present department of Lot-et- Garonne. " Antobroges," 

 however, is the more common reading. 



7 They occupied the district formerly known as Perigord, in the de- 

 partment of theDordogne j their town was Yesanna, afterwards Petrocori, 

 now Perigueux. 



^ Ansart says they are about 200 m number, consisting of Belle Isle, 

 6-roaix, Houat, Hoedic, and others. Also probably Morbilian. 



^ Tlie Isle of Oleron, the fountain-head of the maritune laws of Europe. 



^^ He means to say that it gradually increases in breadth after leaving 

 the narrow neck of the Pyrenees and approaching the confines of Lu- 

 sitania. 



